This case deals with the costs decisions reached by Justice Fancourt following the trial of 3 of the 4 test claims in the mirror newspaper hacking litigation, Ms Sanderson, Ms Wightman & Mr Turner. The fourth being the action by the Duke of Sussex which was being considered separately.
This is a court of appeal decision, dismissing the appeal of a firm of solicitors who had been instructed under an unenforceable CFA.
The appellants were a firm of Solicitors, Volterra Fietta, who the respondents engaged to advise in relation to an investment treaty arbitration claim.
Kelly v Ralli Ltd [2022] EWHC B5 (Costs) Background The Claimant instructed the Defendant in respect of a personal injury claim. That claim concluded in 2019, at which point the Defendant's registered office was at Jackson House in Sale. However, on...
Success at Detailed Assessment does not automatically mean entitlement to all costs of the assessment itself. The Claimant’s bill of costs in Milbrooke Construction Ltd v Jones [2021] EWHC B20 (Costs) was reduced by such a significant level that...
In the matter of Thompson v NSL Limited [2021] EWHC 679 (QB) Master McCloud considered an application by the Claimant to revise parts of a budget originally approved by a District Judge in the County Court.
Decision No.1 - Pallett v MGN Ltd [2021] EWHC 76 (Ch) (19 January 2021)
On 13 November 2020 Her Honour Judge Clarke handed down judgment in the matter of Waterfield and Ors v Dentality Ltd and Ors CC (Oxford) . The judgment deals with the question of QOCS following an Application hearing on 4 August 2020 wherein 26 potential...
Global Energy Horizons Corporation v The Winros Partnership [2020] EWHC B27 (Costs) : Master James has found in favour of the Claimant (the client) in a recent solicitor/client Judgment. The Master concluded that three of a City firm’s retainer...
In Iwuanyawu v Ratcliffes Solicitors [2020] EWHC B25 (Costs), Master Gordon-Saker found in favour of the Claimant (the client) in a solicitor client dispute regarding the right to have the Defendant’s (the solicitor) bills assessed.
Red and White Services Ltd v Phil Anslow Limited and another [2018] EWHC 1699 (Ch) (23 May 2018) Summary A court found the Claimant's and Third Party's budgets to be disproportionate, reducing them from £1.5 million to...
JSC BTA Bank v Mukhtar Ablyazov and another [2018] EWHC 1368 (Comm) (8 June 2018) The above matter related to an application in a long-running litigation. The Claimant applied for, and obtained, an order that the Second Defendant, Mr Khrapunov, provide...
Harrison v Eversheds LLP [2017] EWHC 2594 (QB) Background The underlying claim giving rise to the above appeal related to a solicitor client detailed assessment, the Claimant appealed a decision from Master Rowley....
Failure to File a Costs Budget: Asghar v Bhatti [2017] EWHC 1702 (QB) In this matter, in the course of the costs management process, the claimant had failed to file a costs budget in accordance with the relevant time scales. Therefore...
Two High Court decisions towards the end of 2015 have made it clear that parties refusing to mediate during the detailed assessment process will, in all likelihood, suffer sanctions on costs. In the matter of Reid v Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust...
